Movie Museum DECEMBER 2009 COMING ATTRACTIONS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY SWEET DESTINY Deanna Durbin's Birthday Otto Preminger's Birthday THE HOUSE WITHOUT A Eli Wallach's Birthday aka Pink Ludoos CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY LAURA (1944) CHRISTMAS TREE THE HOLIDAY (2004-Canada) (1944) with Gene Tierney, Dana (1972) (2006) in widescreen with Deanna Durbin, Gene Andrews, Clifton Webb. with Jason Robards, Mildred in widescreen with Shaheen Khan, Jay Kelly, Richard Whorf. Directed by Otto Preminger. Natwick, Lisa Lucas. with Cameron Diaz, Kate Kazim, Jazz Mann, Chenier Directed by Robert Siodmak. 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30pm only Directed by Paul Bogart. Winslet, Eli Wallach, Jack Hundal, Agam Darshi, Jolly 12:30, 2:15, 4 & 5:45pm ------------------------------- 12:30, 2, 3:30 & 5pm only Black, Jude Law, Edward Bader, Linda Darlow, Natasha A STUDY IN TERROR ---------------------------------- Burns, Rufus Sewell, John Wilson, Balinder Johal. -------------------------------- THE HOLIDAY (2006) (1965-UK) THE SEVEN-PER-CENT Krasinski, Shelley Berman. in widescreen SOLUTION (1976-UK/US) Directed by in widescreen Gauray Seth. with Cameron Diaz, Kate with John Neville, Donald in widescreen Written and Directed by Winslet, Eli Wallach, Jack Houston, Judi Dench, with Alan Arkin, Vanessa Nancy Meyers. 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 Black, Jude Law. Anthony Quayle. Redgrave, Nicol Williamson. 6:30 & 8:30pm 6:30 & 8:30pm only 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm & 8:30pm 3 7:30pm only 4 5 6 7 A STUDY IN TERROR Happy Hannukah! Bill Nighy's Birthday REMEMBER THE NIGHT UNCONSCIOUS (1965-UK) DOUBLE INDEMNITY LOVE ACTUALLY (1940) aka Inconscientes in widescreen (1944) (2003-UK/US) with Barbara Stanwyck, Fred (2004-Spain/Germany/Italy/ with John Neville, Donald with Fred MacMurray, in widescreen MacMurray, Beulah Bondi. Portugal) Houston, Judi Dench, John Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. with Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Written by Preston Sturges. in Spanish with English Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, 12:30, 2:15, 4 & 5:45pm subtitles & in widescreen Barbara Windsor. Heather, Tom Powers. Emma Thompson, Keira ---------------------------------- with Leonor Watling, Luis Knightley, Alan Rickman. LOVE ACTUALLY Tosar, Àlex Brendemühl. Directed by Directed and Co-written by (2003-UK/US) James Hill. Billy Wilder. Written and Directed by in widescreen Directed and Co-written by Richard Curtis. with Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant, Joaquín Oristrell. 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 Emma Thompson, Colin Firth. 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 & 8:30pm & 8:30pm 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 7:30pm only & 8:30pm 10 11 12 13 14 THE SEVEN-PER-CENT Stephen Biko's Birthday CHRISTMAS LOVE AFFAIR CROOKS ANONYMOUS SOLUTION CRY FREEDOM IN AUGUST (1939) (1962-UK) (1976-UK/US) (1987-UK) aka Palwolui Christmas with Irene Dunne, Charles with Leslie Phillips, Stanley in widescreen in widescreen (1998-South Korea) Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya. Baxter, Julie Christie. with Alan Arkin, Vanessa with Kevin Kline, Penelope in Korean with English Directed by Leo McCarey. Directed by Ken Annakin. Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Wilton, Denzel Washington, subtitles & in widescreen. 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30pm only 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30pm only ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Nicol Williamson, John Thaw, Sophie Mgcina, with Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha UNCONSCIOUS MON ONCLE ANTOINE Laurence Olivier, Joel Grey. Kevin McNally. Shim, Goo Shin, Ji-hye Oh. aka Inconscientes (1971-Canada) Directed by Directed and Co-written by (2004-Spain/Ger/Italy/Port) in French w/English subtitles Herbert Ross. Directed by Jin-ho Hur. in Spanish w/English subtitles with Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Richard Attenborough. & in widescreen Champagne, Jean Duceppe. 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 with Leonor Watling. Directed by Claude Jutra. & 8:30pm 12:15, 3, 5:45 & 8:30pm & 8:30pm 6:30 & 8:30pm only 6:30 & 8:30pm only 17 18 19 20 21 LARCENY, INC THE MALTESE FALCON LARCENY, INC Maggie Smith's Birthday (1942) Merry (1941) (1942) A ROOM WITH A VIEW with Edward G. Robinson, Christmas! with Edward G. Robinson, (1985-UK) Jane Wyman, Broderick with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Jane Wyman, Broderick in widescreen Crawford, Anthony Quinn. Astor, Gladys George, Peter Crawford, Anthony Quinn. with Maggie Smith, Helena Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Bonham Carter, Denholm 12:30, 2:30, & 8:30pm only 12:30, 2:30, & 4:30pm only --------------------------------- Elisha Cook Jr., Ward Bond, Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Barton MacLane. ----------------------------------- Callow, Judi Dench, Daniel A CHRISTMAS CAROL CROOKS ANONYMOUS (1951-UK) Movie Museum Day-Lewis, Rupert Graves. with Alastair Sim, Mervyn Directed and Co-written by (1962-UK) Johns, Michael Hordern. closed for John Huston. with Leslie Phillips, Stanley Directed by Directed by Baxter, Julie Christie. James Ivory. Brian Desmond Hurst. Christmas Day 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 Directed by Ken Annakin. 4:30 & 6:30pm only & 8:30pm 6:30 & 8:30pm only 12:30, 3, 5:30 & 8pm 24 25 26 27 28 $5 General Admission / $4 Members All films will be presented Reservations Recommended. Call 735-8771. with digital sound. MOVIE MUSEUM December 2009 $5 General Admission / $4 Members COMING ATTRACTIONS Reservations Recommended. Call 735-8771. SWEET DESTINY aka Pink Ludoos (2004-Canada) 90m *** ½ D: Gauray Seth. UNCONSCIOUS aka Inconscientes (2004-Spain/Germany/Italy/Portugal) 104m *** D: Joaquín Shaheen Khan, Jay Kazim, Jazz Mann, Chenier Hundal, Agam Darshi, Jolly Bader, Oristrell. Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Àlex Brendemühl, Mercedes Sampietro, Núria Prims. Linda Darlow. In a community which values boys over girls, feisty young Indo-Canadian Two rival psychiatrists work at a Barcelona hospital in 1913. Both are married to daughters of the Gugan (Kazim) finds herself on a collision course with her conservative mother (Khan) boss. When one of them, Freud scholar Dr. Leon Pardo (Brendemühl), has a meltdown and leaves when she gets pregnant out of wedlock with triplet girls. This thought-provoking and his practice and his home, his pregnant wife Alma (Watling), acting like Sherlock Holmes, very funny comedy won Best Film at the Toronto ReelWorld Film Festival. enlists the help of her brother-in-law Salvador (Tosar) to investigate Leon’s sudden departure. Their clues are found in Dr. Pardo's casebook concerning "four hysterical women". A madcap CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (1944) 93m *** D: Robert Siodmak (PHANTOM LADY). adventure ensues, culminating in a confrontation with Sigmund Freud! This sophisticated yet Deanna Durbin (b 12/4/1921 Happy Birthday Deanna!), Gene Kelly, Dean Harens, hilarious sex farce was winner of four awards at the Barcelona Film Awards. Rated R for sexual Gladys George, Gale Sondergaard. This story, adapted from a W. Somerset Maugham situations and brief nudity. novel, concerns an American army officer (Harens) who meets local New Orleans singer Durbin in a sleazy cabaret. After the pair attends midnight mass, Durbin tells him about CRY FREEDOM (1987-UK) 157m *** D: Richard Attenborough (GANDHI). Kevin Kline, her brief marriage to a dashing young man (Kelly) who turned out to be a murderer. Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally, John Thaw, Timothy West, Sophie Deanna gives her best performance in this highly atmospheric (and very rare) Christmas Mgcina. In 1975, South Africa’s black population has a hero in Stephen Biko (Washington), an film noir masterfully lensed by Woody Bredell and nominated for a Best Music Oscar. activist advocating self determination. Realizing he must form alliances with white liberals, Biko befriends newspaper editor Donald Woods (Kline) who takes on the battle against apartheid THE HOLIDAY (2006) 136m *** D: Nancy Meyers. Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, as if it were his own. Wrenchingly immediate, this biographical drama was nominated for three Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach (Happy Birthday, Eli! You're 94 on 12/7/09 and still Oscars and won a Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Biko was born 12/ making movies!), Rufus Sewell. Two women swap homes for the Christmas holidays: 18/1946 and died 9/12/1977. Denzel Washington will be 55 on 12/28/09. Londoner Iris (Kate) wallows in Amanda’s (Diaz) palatial Beverly Hills estate while Amanda cocoons in Iris’s cozy cottage in the English countryside. Each hope to spend CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST aka Palwolui Christmas (1998-South Korea) 97m *** D: Jin-ho Christmas free from entanglements with men, but shy musician Miles (Black) and Iris’s Hur. Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ha Shim, Goo Shin, Ji-hye Oh, Han-wi Lee. Jung-won (Han) owns a brother Graham (Law) might not make that possible. Eli Wallach shines as a screenwriter small photography shop and lives with his father and sister. When he learns that he has a terminal in this charming romantic comedy. illness, he downplays its seriousness to his family and friends. A local meter reader, Dar-im (Shim), who has become a regular customer, has an unspoken bond with Jung-won. Without LAURA (1944) 87m **** D: Otto Preminger (born 12/5/1906). Gene Tierney, Dana overtly expressing their feelings, their intimacy grows, but Jung-won’s unwillingness to tell her Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson. Gorgeous Tierney is the about his illness doesn’t make this easy for her. This touching romance won four international subject of a murder plot in this sophisticated film noir, with obsessive detective Andrews film awards. trying to assemble the crime puzzle. Webb, as cynical columnist Waldo Lydecker, adds stinging commentary in his star-making performance. This classic which won an Oscar LOVE AFFAIR (1939) 88m *** D: Leo McCarey (AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER). Irene for Joseph LaShelle's cinematography and features David Raksin's immortal theme Dunne (b 12/20/1898, d 9/4/1990), Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid celebrates its 65th anniversary this year.